From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542CB963.4010004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542CB798.8000800@cs.umass.edu>
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On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> You could write my solution as:
>
> echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard
'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it
may misbehave if cygpath outputs a leading - or contains any \); it's
better to use 'printf' for that purpose:
printf %s `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard
> The echo solution has the good property that echo is
> a shell built-in and so does not require spawning
> another process.
The same is true of printf.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-02 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-01 21:52 Paul.Domaskis
2014-10-01 22:08 ` Gary Johnson
2014-10-01 22:50 ` Jim Garrison
2014-10-01 22:54 ` Keith Christian
2014-10-01 22:56 ` Keith Christian
2014-10-01 23:06 ` Gary Johnson
2014-10-01 23:11 ` Paul.Domaskis
2014-10-01 23:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-02 2:25 ` Eliot Moss
2014-10-02 2:33 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-10-02 13:13 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2014-10-02 18:20 ` Paul.Domaskis
2014-10-02 23:24 ` Keith Christian
2014-10-03 5:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-03 13:25 ` Paul.Domaskis
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